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AGITATION OF THE SLAVERY QUESTION. Richmond Enquirer Richmond, Virginia 3-17-1857 Democratic if they would let us alone and leave slavery to the states, and to the same protection and privileges enjoyed by all other property under the Constitution, the agitation of the question would come to an end on the instant. |
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Albany Evening Journal Albany, New York 3-10-1857 Republican Judge Taney requests the American people to believe that the framers of the Constitution did not know their own minds. |
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Decision in the Dred Scott Case. Illinios State Journal Springfield, Illinois 3-14-1857 Republican the power of Congress to make all needful rules and regulations respecting the Territory was not, as the majority of the Court expressed, limited to territory belonging to the United States at the time of the adoption of the Constitution |
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Illinois State Register Springfield, Illinois 3-12-1857 Democratic the black republicans have wasted more breath, ink and time on the Missouri compromise |
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Half a Million Citizens Disfranchised. Albany Evening Journal Albany, New York 3-10-1857 Republican The half million of men and women paralysed by the atheistic logic of the decision of the case of Dred Scott |
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Weekly North Carolina Standard Raleigh, North Carolina 3-11-1857 Democratic The Supreme Court of the United States, on Friday last, delivered through Chief Justice Taney its decision in the Dred Scott case, containing the following opinions: |
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Mr. Giddings' Letter to Mr. Benton. Ohio State Journal Columbus, Ohio 3-25-1857 Republican Thom H. Benton, in his copy-righted, Union-saving lecture, states "that the Constitution of the United States sets out with the declaration that 'slaves are property,'" to which Mr. Giddings replies in a long letter. |
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New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 3-11-1857 Republican auctions of black men may be held in front of Faneuil Hall |
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New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 3-12-1857 Republican our liberties may be subverted, our rights trampled upon; the spirit of our institutions utterly disregarded |
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Daily Pittsburgh Gazette Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 3-7-1857 Republican We cannot speak for the Republican party; but we feel free to say that it will spurn this decision |
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Republican Journal Columbus, Wisconsin 3-31-1857 Republican It strikes at the very vitals ofour free institutions |
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Illinios State Journal Springfield, lllinois 3-17-1857 Republican several of the Supreme Court Judges are getting their opinions printed privately, and have revised them to conform to the points of Judges Curtis and McLean |
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Illinios State Journal Springfield, Illinois 3-17-1857 Republican Yes, he has done all this, and delivered one of the most atrocious law opinions that has ever disgraced the history of the courts of civilized nations. |
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Illinios State Journal Springfield, Illinois 3-18-1857 Republican There is a party at Washington, evidently, which derives great comfort from this notable judgment; it is talked of as the new corner stone of slave expansion, something almost equal to a palladium of liberty. |
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Ohio State Journal Columbus, Ohio 4-3-1857 Republican We call the especial attention of our readers to the Report and Resolutions of the Committee of the Legislature in regard to the judicial outrage known as the opinion of the U. S. Supreme Court upon the Dred Scott case. |
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Opinions of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott Case. Albany Evening Journal Albany, New York 3-7-1857 Republican It is no novelty to find the Supreme Court following the lead of the Slavery Extension party, to which most of its members belong |
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Cleveland Plain Dealer Cleveland, Ohio 3-16-1857 Democratic Since the demise of the late Republican Party on the fifth of November, a post mortem has revealed some of the principal causes of the the brevity of its life, which before was but partially known, for the depth of its corruption and canker sores could not be probed while the body was shrieking and struggling. |
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Shall Slavery Take Possession of the Nation, or shall Freedom Rule? Ohio State Journal Columbus, Ohio 3-11-1857 Republican Many good-natured, Union-loving men hoped that the administration of Buchanan would be an improvement upon that of Franklin Pierce. |
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Illinios State Journal Springfield, Illinois 3-17-1857 Republican The last thing we should anticipate from our Southern brethren would be a self-reproach that they had not been true to themselves |
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SUPREME COURT vs. THE ABOLITIONISTS. Richmond Enquirer Richmond, Virginia 3-13-1857 Democratic Abolitionism must now unmask, and wage its warfare openly and above board against the government |
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The Conspiracy against Freedom. Albany Evening Journal Albany, New York 3-11-1857 Republican the People will from the hour of this Dred decision, unintermittingly roll back this mixed Conspiracy |
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The Decision in the Case of Dred Scott. Daily Pittsburgh Gazette Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 3-7-1857 Republican We may henceforth throw to the winds the reasoning of Story and the decisions of Marshall |
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The Decision in the Dred Scott Case. Louisville Journal Louisville, Kentucky 3-16-1857 American At a single blow it shatters and destroys the platform of the Republican party. |
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The Decision in the Supreme Court. Sun Baltimore, Maryland 3-9-1857 American The decision just made in the Dred Scott case, an obscure African, by the Supreme Court of the United States, is probably the most important that ever emanated from that highest tribunal of our country. |
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The Decision of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott Case. Arkansas State Gazette and Democrat Little Rock, Arkansas 4-4-1857 American The Black Republican papers, with but few exceptions, so far as we have seen, are down upon the Supreme Court, for their decision in the Dred Scott case. |
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The Decision of the Supreme Court. Weekly North Carolina Standard Raleigh, North Carolina 3-18-1857 Democratic We publish to-day, at length, the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, delivered by Chief Justice Taney, in the Dred Scott case. |
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The Dred Scott Case and the Missouri Compromise Natchez Daily Courier Natchez, Mississippi 3-14-1857 American This is a seeming blow at the doctrine of squatter sovereignty, but not quite as hard a one as we could wish the Court had given. |
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Richmond Enquirer Richmond, Virginia 3-10-1857 Democratic in contradistinction to and in repudiation of the diabolical doctrines inculcated by factionists and fanatics; and that too by a tribunal of jurists, as learned, impartial and unprejudiced as perhaps the world has ever seen. |
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Sun Baltimore, Maryland 3-11-1857 American we can but foresee that this decision will create, everywhere, a profound sensation |
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Sun Baltimore, Maryland 3-10-1857 American the United States Supreme Court decides the unconstitutionality of the Missouri compromise act, and rules that a colored man cannot be a citizen of the United States |
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The Dred Scott Decision: Its Legal and Political Consequences New Orleans Daily Delta New Orleans, Louisiana 3-19-1857 Democratic The late formal decision of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case has been undergoing the most vigorous and untiring explanation and discussion in the New York journals, and no end of incomprehensible legal profundity is employed to mystify the few intelligible points of constitutionality and law contained in the decision. |
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The Important Decision of the Supreme Court of the United States on the Slavery Question. Cincinnati Daily Enquirer Cincinnati, Ohio 3-8-1857 Democratic This is a complete vindication of the doctrine of the Nebraska Bill |
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Albany Evening Journal Albany, New York 3-9-1857 Republican a new shackle for the North will be handed to the servile Supreme Court, to rivet upon us. |
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Federal Union Milledgeville, Georgia 3-31-1857 Democratic The late decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, in the Dred Scott case, will bring the enemies of the South face to face with the Constitution of their country. |
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Charleston Mercury Charleston, South Carolina 3-27-1857 Democratic we shall acquire, by the decision of the Supreme Court, not one right more than they granted to us before -- not one foot of slave territory more than we would have acquired without it. |
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The Opinion of Chief Justice Taney Albany Evening Journal Albany, New York 3-10-1857 Republican a blot upon our National character abroad, and a long-remembered shame at home. |
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Charleston Mercury Charleston, South Carolina 3-17-1857 Democratic slavery is guaranteed by the constitutional compact. |
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The Question Settled. -- Black Republicanism vs. the Constitution. Daily Patriot Concord, New Hampshire 3-18-1857 Democratic It utterly demolishes the whole black republican platform and stamps it as directly antagonistical to the constitution. |
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The Supreme Court on the Slavery Question. Illinios State Journal Springfield, Illinois 3-16-1857 Republican We give this morning an abstract of the opinions of Justice McLean and Curtis, dissenting from said decision, wherein they maintain that the Missouri Compromise is constitutional |
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Albany Evening Journal Albany, New York 3-19-1857 Republican Five of its nine silk gowns are worn by Slaveholders. |
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The U. S. Supreme Court and its Decisions. Ohio State Journal Columbus, Ohio 3-14-1857 Republican The United States Supreme Court consists of nine judges. |
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The Unconstitutionality of the Missouri Compromise. Cleveland Plain Dealer Cleveland, Ohio 3-11-1857 Democratic The opinion of the United States Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case in which seven of the nine Judges concur, is unquestionably the most important one in itself, and its bearings upon the leading political question of the day that has been pronounced within the present century. |
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Ohio State Journal Columbus, Ohio 3-31-1857 Republican The official organ of Mr. Buchanan at Washington, The Union, is trying its hand at expositions of Scripture. |
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Times-Picayune New Orleans, Louisiana 10-9-1859 Democratic These journals thus make themselves the agents, which abolitionism desires, for sending its tracts into the midst of the South, and, under professions of friendship, do the work of our deadliest foes. |
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Daily Herald Wilmington, North Carolina 10-26-1859 Opposition 'Twasno insurrection, and it is a libel upon the slave indesignating it as such. |
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Frankfort Commonwealth Frankfort, Kentucky 11-21-1859 Opposition The greed of money-getting is not very particular in the way of accomplishing its purposes but the most singular instance we have lately heard of, is an effort to turn the execution of Ossawattomie Brown and his fellow conspirators to account, by getting up a monster excursion, from all parts of the country, of those who have a sufficiently morbid appetite for the horrible as to induce them to desire to be present. |
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An Insurrection Without Negroes Cincinnati Daily Enquirer Cincinnati, Ohio 12-4-1859 Democratic the negroes of Virginia are not insurrectionally inclined. |
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Daily Patriot Concord, New Hamphire 12-7-1859 Democratic several lives, of unoffending victims, are without the least provocation and most wantonly taken away by lawless violence, yet not a word of reproof is heard from our pulpits. |
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New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 11-19-1859 Republican Brown, however, escapes being ridiculous by faith, fortitude, devotedness, and unshaken confidence in his cause and himself with which, wounded, a prisoner, his followers slain or captured, and himself condemned to death, he still adheres to his project as a feasible and rational no less than a philanthropic undertaking. |
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Brown Republican Sympathizers. Illinois State Register Springfield, Illinois 11-9-1859 Democratic If abolitionism and republicanism are identical in New York, they are equally in so Illinois. |
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Times-Picayune New Orleans, Louisiana 11-8-1859 Democratic Now that John Brown's foray upon Virginia is over and the surviving ringleaders are under doom for their crimes, the agitation which has greatly subsided at the South continues to grow and increase at the North. |
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Don't Like Their Own Medicine. Cincinnati Daily Enquirer Cincinnati, Ohio 10-29-1859 Democratic he was backed up and sustained by money and arms obtained from Abolitionists and Republicans of the North |
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Semi-weekly Raleigh Register Raleigh, North Carolina 12-3-1859 Opposition In all the Noo England towns and villages, we may expect to hear that mock funerals have been celebrated, and all kinds of nonsensically lugubrious displays made. |
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Execution of the Four Conspirators. Semi-weekly Raleigh Register Raleigh, North Carolina 12-21-1859 Opposition It will bring to an immediate solution the question as to whether the Union can be preserved, and the right of the South to hold property in slaves be maintained. |
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Natchez Daily Courier Natchez, Mississippi 11-18-1859 Opposition Perhaps there never was a wilder or more foolish enterprise -- leaving entirely out of view the atrocity of the thing -- than that undertaken by Brown and his confederates at Harper's Ferry. |
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Albany Evening Journal Albany, New York 11-30-1859 Republican Our own belief is that he should not be executed |
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Times-Picayune New Orleans, Louisiana 11-11-1859 Democratic None of these are improbable effects of the Harper's Ferry events on a man of Gerrit Smith's temperament, history frailties and fanaticisms |
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Gov. Wise and the Harper's Ferry Banditti. Semi-weekly Raleigh Register Raleigh, North Carolina 11-5-1859 Opposition Is not the New York Times ashamed of itself? |
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Important Disclosures -- Seward and Chase -- Harper's Ferry. Cincinnati Daily Enquirer Cincinnati, Ohio 10-28-1859 Democratic the leading Abolition Republicans of the free states were privy to it |
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New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 10-29-1859 Republican The Virginian Chivalry seem to be bent on proving that their Ancient Dominion was, and is, in danger of being taken away from them by foreign invasion and domestic insurrection. |
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New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 11-25-1859 Republican It is abundantly shown by these affidavits that on the mother's side Brown belonged to a family in which insanity was hereditary. |
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New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 10-28-1859 Republican Those who are now straining every nerve to make party capital out of Old Brown, are careful not to look back so far as to see how and why he became a monomaniac. |
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Charleston Mercury Charleston, South Carolina 11-28-1859 Democratic We are satisfied that every intelligent man in the South has been completely disgusted at the broad and pathetic farce that has been played off before the public about the hanging of that hoary villain, "OLD BROWN." |
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Charleston Mercury Charleston, South Carolina 11-5-1859 Democratic Avarice alone keeps them in association with us -- avarice gratified at our submission to their policy of plunder and [sic] aggrandisement. |
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MURDER AND TREASON vs. PATRIOTISM. Charleston Mercury Charleston, South Carolina 11-4-1859 Democratic the Tribune considers the act of Brown as the act of a patriot |
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Times-Picayune New Orleans, Louisiana 11-3-1859 Democratic Giddings and Smith would desire no better position -- for giving them a strength, beyond that which either can hope to possess as Abolitionists, within the free States -- than to be made the subject of a formal demand for transfer to Virginia |
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No Pardon or Commutation of Sentence for Old Brown. Semi-weekly Raleigh Register Raleigh, North Carolina 11-9-1859 Opposition The conduct of these Northern people presents a most extraordinary compound of villainy and impudence. |
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Albany Evening Journal Albany, New York 12-2-1859 Republican the mad men of the South who, to bolster up Slavery, are ready to abrogate the most sacred rights guaranteed to a free people. |
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New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 10-18-1859 Republican A most extraordinary telegraphic bulletin startled the whole country yesterday -- one importing that an Insurrection had just broken out at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, and that it was the work of negroes and Abolitionists! |
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New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 10-19-1859 Republican The Insurrection, so called, at Harper's Ferry, proves a verity. |
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New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 10-26-1859 Republican Rather than be complimented in this back-handed style, we imagine that the military would have preferred not to have been mentioned at all. |
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Daily Pittsburgh Gazette Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 12-3-1859 Republican millions of curses were uttered against the hellish system which so mercilessly and ferociously cried out for his blood. |
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Frankfort Commonwealth Frankfort, Kentucky 10-24-1859 Opposition We are pleased to observe that the Northern press, without the distinction of party, express the most unqualified condemnation of the wicked and insane projects of Brown and his hairbrained associates. |
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Frankfort Commonwealth Frankfort, Kentucky 10-28-1859 Opposition [Pointing Finger] The Harper's Ferry affair continues to attract more attention than all other matters combined, and we therefore yield most of our space to the telegraphic reports of the examining trial of Brown an his confederates. |
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Frankfort Commonwealth Frankfort, Kentucky 10-28-1859 Opposition [Pointing Finger] The Richmond Enquirer is fearfully distressed lest Kentucky may be made the victim of a "descent" of the class of Abolitionists of whom Brown is a type, and lest, being at a greater distance from the forces of the Federal Government, the attempt at exciting a general insurrection among the slaves of this State may be successful before the assistance of the Federal troops can be obtained. |
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Frankfort Commonwealth Frankfort, Kentucky 10-31-1859 Opposition [Pointing Finger] The public are busy conjecturing whether or not Gov. Wise will demand from the Executives of Ohio and New York the bodies of Gerrit Smith, Giddings, and others, who may be implicated in the Harper's Ferry affair; and speculations are indulged as to what will be the course of those Governors, and as to the probable results of a refusal on their part to deliver up such citizens of their respective States as indictments may be found against by the Virginia authorities for aiding and abetting the recent act of invasion of that Commonwealth. |
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Frankfort Commonwealth Frankfort, Kentucky 10-31-1859 Opposition [Pointing Finger] We cannot but regard it as unfortunate that Judge Parker has seen proper to refuse the delay asked for by Brown, in order that he might procure his own counsel and not be compelled to rely upon the gentlemen furnished him by the Commonwealth. |
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Frankfort Commonwealth Frankfort, Kentucky 11-11-1859 Opposition [Pointing Finger] The following article from the Richmond Whig in the main expresses our own views so exactly that we adopt them. |
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Frankfort Commonwealth Frankfort, Kentucky 12-17-1859 Opposition [Pointing Finger] It is pleasing to observe the reaction which is rapidly taking place in Northern sentiment. |
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Times-Picayune New Orleans, Louisiana 11-1-1859 Democratic if this man should be caught, and made to suffer the penalties of his crimes, we suppose he would be elevated to the rank of a "martyr" in the calendar of Abolitionism, where Marat, Couthon, and Robespierre ought to stand. |
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Our Harper's Ferry and Charlestown News. Cincinnati Daily Enquirer Cincinnati, Ohio 12-3-1859 Democratic We rejoice that old BROWN has been hung |
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Times-Picayune New Orleans, Louisiana 11-16-1859 Democratic Some such answer will Virginia give to the clamorous outcry that comes to her from the free States for mercy to John Brown. |
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Illinois State Register Springfield, Illinois 12-6-1859 Democratic a scoundrel and traitor has paid the just penalty of the laws. |
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Republican Banner Nashville, Tennessee 10-25-1859 Opposition while we unhesitatingly condemn the Republican party for the part they have performed in this alarming tragedy, we should be untrue to ourselves and unfaithful to the public, were we to pass over in silence the conduct of a party nearer home. |
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The Abolition Insurrection at Harper's Ferry -- The Irrepressible Conflict begun. Federal Union Milledgeville, Georgia 11-1-1859 Democratic this was a regularly concocted, and premeditated attempt of Abolition Fanatics to overthrow the Government, and emancipate the slaves. |
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The Abolitionists of the North Implicated in the Harper's Ferry Insurrection. Cincinnati Daily Enquirer Cincinnati, Ohio 10-20-1859 Democratic the Northern Abolitionists are implicated and are at the bottom of the Harper's Ferry conspiracy. |
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Cincinnati Daily Enquirer Cincinnati, Ohio 10-19-1859 Democratic It was an Abolitionplot to free the negroes ofMaryland and Virginia at the point of the bayonet. |
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The Democratic Party and Old Brown. Charleston Mercury Charleston, South Carolina 11-8-1859 Democratic To weaken, subject and use the South, but not to lose her, is their policy. |
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Semi-weekly Raleigh Register Raleigh, North Carolina 12-9-1859 Opposition Much very silly ridicule has been aimed at Gov. Wise |
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Chicago Press and Tribune Chicago, Illinois 12-2-1859 Republican The man's heroism which is as sublime as that of a martyr |
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Boston Evening Transcript Boston, Massachusetts 10-24-1859 Republican the panic Mr. Brown with his handful of deluded followers created in Maryland and Virginia was not at all creditable to the people or authorities of the vicinity. |
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Daily Patriot Concord, New Hamphire 10-26-1859 Democratic the dangerous tendencies of the pernicious doctrines which, during a few years past, have been so zealously taught and advocated by political leaders and partisan preachers here at the North. |
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Times-Picayune New Orleans, Louisiana 10-25-1859 Democratic The whole affair dwindles into utter insignificance as the literal facts are brought out from the uncertainty peculiar to the first demonstration. |
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The Harper's Ferry Insurrection. Charleston Mercury Charleston, South Carolina 10-19-1859 Democratic a concerted movement of abolitionists and their black victims in southern States |
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The Harper's Ferry Insurrection.-- Arkansas State Gazette and Democrat Little Rock, Arkansas 11-12-1859 Opposition The great mass of the people, both in the North and the South, condemn Brown's treason, and rejoice to know that law and justice have been so promptly administered to him. |
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The Harper's Ferry Invasion as Party Capital. Richmond Enquirer Richmond, Virginia 10-25-1859 Democratic The vile clamor of party, the struggle of Republicanism for power, has given an impetus to the abolition zeal of old Brown and his comrades |
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Republican Banner Nashville, Tennessee 10-24-1859 Opposition This attempt to excite an insurrection among the slaves is one of the natural results of the agitation of the slavery question |
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Republican Banner Nashville, Tennessee 10-22-1859 Opposition The causes of the riot, it is impossible now to determine. |
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State Gazette Austin, Texas 11-5-1859 Democratic The bloody tragedy which we have endeavored to relate in our columns is at least some evidence of the influence of Black Republican agitation upon the masses of the Northern people. |
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New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 10-25-1859 Republican we do not see how they could be demanded for trial in Virginia. |
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Charleston Mercury Charleston, South Carolina 10-21-1859 Democratic It is a warning profoundly symptomatic of the future of the Union with our sectional enemies. |
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The Insurrection at Harper's Ferry. Frankfort Commonwealth Frankfort, Kentucky 10-21-1859 Opposition The details by Telegraph of the insurrection at Harper's Ferry take up so much space as to prevent their publication in our paper. |
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The Martyr's Death and the Martyr's Triumph New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 12-9-1859 Republican no pull quote designated |
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The New York Elections and their Meaning. Charleston Mercury Charleston, South Carolina 11-24-1859 Democratic there are men whose minds are so blindly and determinedly fixed on preserving the Union, at all events, that nothing, short of the very fires of insurrection at their own homes, and the abduction of their property when Black Republican policy shall come to its consummation in the last grand catastrophe, can wean from vain hopes of northern magnanimity, or wake from the delusive dreams of future peace. |
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Chicago Press and Tribune Chicago, Illinois 10-26-1859 Republican The Slaveholders have evenless confidence in the "patriarchal tenure"than the "Abolitionists." |
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Charleston Mercury Charleston, South Carolina 11-1-1859 Democratic Although BROWN'S effort at an insurrection has been silly and abortive, the developments are rapidly showing that a wide-spread scheme was maturing at the North for insurrections throughout the South. |
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Daily Pittsburgh Gazette Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 11-30-1859 Republican Free speech is now denied at the South. |
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State Gazette Austin, Texas 12-3-1859 Democratic no pull quote designated |
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Times-Picayune New Orleans, Louisiana 10-30-1859 Democratic It is a very careless use of words to describe the Harper's Ferry outbreak as a "negro insurrection," or "slave insurrection," as is frequently done by presses |
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Chicago Press and Tribune Chicago, Illinois 10-22-1859 Republican In all this they are assisted by the bogus Democratic party. |
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New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 10-27-1859 Republican The slave-statutes of Virginia are but legislated, enacted, concrete fright. |
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Virginia and the Fate of the Invaders Charleston Mercury Charleston, South Carolina 11-14-1859 Democratic A question of policy to avoid giving occasion for their wailings and denunciations for the doom of their unfortunate confreres, pioneering the way to universal emancipation at the South! |
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Charleston Mercury Charleston, South Carolina 11-28-1859 Democratic No one in the South could have watched the course of the Virginia statesmen and public presses since her sad fall in 1852, without marking her steady drifting to an anti-Southern nationalism. |
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Times-Picayune New Orleans, Louisiana 10-29-1859 Democratic viewed in its true light, how there can be any question that it forms a part, and an important part, of the criminal transaction |
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Daily Herald Wilmington, North Carolina 12-5-1859 Opposition It is useless to disguise the fact, that the entireNorth and Northwest are hopelessly abolitionized. |
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Times-Picayune New Orleans, Louisiana 10-25-1859 Democratic Reports speak of discoveries of correspondence with noted abolitionists and proofs of concert with notorious men in the Northern and Western States. |
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Where the Responsibility Belongs. Chicago Press and Tribune Chicago, Illinois 10-20-1859 Republican The Democratic party, however proposes toincrease the chances for insurrection, bloodshed and all the horrors of servile war, by extending the area of slavery indefinitely and by re-opening the African slave trade. |
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New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 11-12-1859 Republican the champion of the slaveholding class will put to death the champion of the slave. |
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Illinois State Register Springfield, Illinois 10-27-1859 Democratic The excuses of the black republican press are as various and conflicting as they are shallow. |
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Detroit Free Press Detroit, Michigan 2-10-1854 Democratic The only serious danger to the permanency of our institutions is the proclivity of the central power to interfere in the rights of the States. |
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Detroit Free Press Detroit, Michigan 1-27-1854 Democratic But whether slavery would or would not go to Nebraska, is not the question. That must be left to the people, whom we must learn to trust. |
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Semi-weekly Raleigh Register Raleigh, North Carolina 5-17-1854 Whig Will the people of the old States, on whom this measure will fall most ruinously, suffer themselves to be humbugged by the basely cunning and false representations of the lackeys of the Administration? |
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New-Orleans Bee New Orleans, Louisiana 5-20-1854 Whig There is a great deal of truth in the following article, which we extract from the New York Tribune, of the 14th inst., and right angry are we at being compelled to admit it. |
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Detroit Free Press Detroit, Michigan 2-10-1854 Democratic Let not abolitionists talk to us of the sacredness of compromises! Nothing is sacred with them. |
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Hartford Daily Courant Hartford, Connecticut 5-27-1854 Whig It is time that minor differences should be forgotten or laid aside. |
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A WORD TO SOUTHERN MEMBERS OF CONGRESS. New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 2-23-1854 Whig Cowardice is thought a great stain at the South, yet political cowardice has of late years become nest to universal there |
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Semi-weekly Raleigh Register Raleigh, North Carolina 4-15-1854 Whig If their defeat is not on the ground of opposition to the Nebraska Bill, then it must be on the ground of opposition to the general course of the Administration! |
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Illinois State Register Springfield, Illinois 3-30-1854 Democratic If the Journal editor would not be classed as an abolitionist, he should not fulminate abolition doctrines. |
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Hartford Daily Courant Hartford, Connecticut 1-27-1854 Whig This is a bold bid of Douglas for the next Presidency. |
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Amendments to the Nebraska Bill. Hartford Daily Courant Hartford, Connecticut 5-23-1854 Whig Let the public see where the truth is. |
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Illinois State Register Springfield, Illinois 3-13-1854 Democratic Since the introduction of a Nebraska bill Greely has been busily engaged in fabricating public opinion against it. |
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New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 2-9-1854 Whig We now learn that a body of the representatives of the South, who are always united in the support of all schemes for the extension of the patriarchal institution, and who now anticipate a certain victory with the aid of the northern doughfaces, have still another deception in contemplation. |
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Hartford Daily Courant Hartford, Connecticut 5-16-1854 Whig The whole slavery agitation has been reopened by the South themselves. |
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Congress and the Nebraska Bill. Morning Herald Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 11-23-1854 Whig The debate on the Nebraska-Kansas bill terminated in the House on Saturday at 12 o'clock, prior to which as arrangement was agreed upon for gentlemen who had not spoken on the subject to be permitted to print their speeches. |
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Semi-weekly Raleigh Register Raleigh, North Carolina 3-22-1854 Whig It is an attempt to prove the locofoco party the national party, and the Whig party a mere faction. |
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Detroit Free Press Detroit, Michigan 2-4-1854 Democratic The principle of Congressional non intervention in the domestic affairs of the States and Territories is strongly intrenched in the popular heart. |
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Detroit Free Press Detroit, Michigan 2-11-1854 Democratic Shall, or shall not, the people of the Territories be permitted to manage their own affairs in their own way? |
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Glorious News from Washington -- Passage of the Nebraska Bill. Cincinnati Daily Enquirer Cincinnati, Ohio 5-24-1854 Democratic Those who desire to keep the disturbing and distracting subject of slavery in Congress, as an eternal bone of contention between the North and the South, instead of referring its decision to those to whom it legitimately belongs, will, of course, send up a howl of rage over the result, which, to them, is so calamitous. |
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Morning Herald Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 5-25-1854 Whig A Washington correspondent writing in reference to the change of front by a number of Northern members, says, |
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Federal Union Milledgeville, Georgia 3-14-1854 Democratic With such a showing as this, the Whig paper at the South, that raises its voice against Northern Democrats, should call up on the mountains and the rocks to fall on them and hide them forever from the gaze of honest and patriotic men. |
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New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 2-15-1854 Whig the bill of Douglas, in so far as it proposes to disturb the Missouri Compromise, involves gross perfidy, and is bolstered up by the most audacious false pretenses and frauds. |
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New-Haven Daily Register New Haven, Connecticut 2-4-1854 Democratic And it is this same principle, so eloquently advanced by Clay and Webster and the Democratic statesmen who went with them in that movement, that is incorporated in the new bill for Nebraska |
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Charleston Mercury Charleston, South Carolina 2-4-1854 Democratic we expect to see abolition attempting now to cloak its head under the mantle of good faith, and cry aloud for the maintenance of pledges, while it presses forward its own wicked objects. |
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Semi-weekly Raleigh Register Raleigh, North Carolina 5-31-1854 Whig by a sneaking and covert insinuation, it would leave the impression that they were co-operating with abolitionists! |
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Semi-weekly Raleigh Register Raleigh, North Carolina 5-31-1854 Whig Not only the balance of power broken down, between the slave and the free States, with a large preponderance in the Senate in favor of the latter, but that very section which is now held out as open to the slaveholder, by this very measure, filled up by a foreign population violently hostile to our interests! |
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Michigan and the Nebraska Question. Detroit Free Press Detroit, Michigan 2-3-1854 Democratic no effort at agitation, either on the part of abolition, whig or "independent" papers, can move that sentiment from the firm base on which it stands. |
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Charleston Mercury Charleston, South Carolina 3-21-1854 Democratic it places the claims of the bill to Southern support on the true ground of the equal constitutional rights of all the States in the Territories |
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New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 2-16-1854 Whig the daily misrepresentations of the paid organs of the Government in regard to every other point in the existing controversy. |
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Detroit Free Press Detroit, Michigan 2-7-1854 Democratic We furnish our readers to-day with the first half of Senator Douglas' speech on the territorial bill. |
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Mr. Everett's Position -- Necessity of Mr. Douglas' Bill. Detroit Free Press Detroit, Michigan 2-15-1854 Democratic Let democratic statesmen, at least, be consistent, and cling to the republican doctrine of non-intervention. |
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New-Orleans Bee New Orleans, Louisiana 5-6-1854 Whig The Washington correspondent of the New York Express says: |
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Nebraska - Mr. Douglas's Report. New-Haven Daily Register New Haven, Connecticut 1-16-1854 Democratic We commend Mr. Douglas' report not only for the ability with which it is prepared, but for the sound, national, Union-loving sentiments, with which it abounds. |
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Morning Herald Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 5-25-1854 Whig The struggle on the Nebraska-Kansas bill has finally terminated by its passage by both Houses. |
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Daily Pittsburgh Gazette Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 2-2-1854 Whig This is Slavery fairly developed. Like Catholicism, it cannot bear discussion. |
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New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 1-10-1854 Whig We cannot conceive how intelligent and conscientious men, who possess a real regard for the great doctrines of human freedom, can excuse themselves for such an abandonment as that which we have been apprised is in contemplation. |
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New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 1-23-1854 Whig Is it not time that the Press of the Free States, without distinction of party, should speak out on this question? |
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Charleston Mercury Charleston, South Carolina 1-23-1854 Democratic the North and the South ought to unite in sweeping it into the rubbish of extinct legislative anomalies |
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Charleston Mercury Charleston, South Carolina 2-4-1854 Democratic Senator DOUGLAS made a powerful speech in vindication of the Nebraska bill |
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Detroit Free Press Detroit, Michigan 1-6-1854 Democratic It is no part of the business of Congress to legislate for the territories. |
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New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 1-28-1854 Whig For our own part, we regard this Nebraska movement of Douglas and his backers as one of measureless treachery and infamy. |
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Albany Evening Journal Albany, New York 5-23-1854 Whig Slavery crawls, like a slimy reptile over the ruins, to defile a second eden. |
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New-Haven Daily Register New Haven, Connecticut 1-30-1854 Democratic The persons who have been busiest in charging the Administration with favoring Free Soilism, are now "standing upon the other tack," and assert that the Administration is doing all it can for the benefit of slavery! |
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New-Haven Daily Register New Haven, Connecticut 2-2-1854 Democratic As we are a little oblivious respecting the "loud-mouthed attacks of the democratic press," which the Courant alludes to, will the editor be good enough to produce them? |
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New-Haven Daily Register New Haven, Connecticut 2-2-1854 Democratic The only mode of relief we can think of, will be to elect the editor a delegate to the great "Hen convention |
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New-Haven Daily Register New Haven, Connecticut 2-4-1854 Democratic The abolitionists, free soilers, and free soil whigs, the Boston Post thinks, had better save their breath to cool their porridge, instead of wasting it in denunciation of the Nebraska bill. |
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New-Haven Daily Register New Haven, Connecticut 2-6-1854 Democratic its sole object is to confirm the principles of the Compromise of 1850, and remove the question of slavery from the National Councils. |
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New-Haven Daily Register New Haven, Connecticut 2-14-1854 Democratic Whiggery lives upon such excitements. |
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Mississippian Jackson, Mississippi 3-31-1854 Democratic we have no fanatical women roving over the country and bringing reproach upon the community in which they live, by mingling in affairs which pertain to the sterner sex, we have no preachers who convert the sacred desk into an arena of sectional strife, and whose blasphemies make the very angels weep. |
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Semi-weekly Raleigh Register Raleigh, North Carolina 3-8-1854 Whig the locofoco party, in Convention assembled, gave their solemn sanction and recommendation to a measure which they must have believed, -- if what they had said was to be relied upon, -- surrendered the rights of the South |
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New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 1-13-1854 Whig The opposition to the Nebraska bill is gaining daily. |
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New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 1-14-1854 Whig The honor of the South, therefore, cannot be trusted where the interests of Slavery are involved, because on such occasions the voice of honor and truth is always silenced by the clamor of low, brutal and selfish passions. |
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New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 1-14-1854 Whig it will probably pass as an Administration measure. |
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New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 1-24-1854 Whig we judge he is after keeping up the equilibrium of things by making a slave and a free State out of his two proposed territories of Nebraska and Kansas. |
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New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 1-25-1854 Whig The Adminstration is determined to put through DOUGLAS'S Nebraska bill before public opinion cows the timid. |
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New-Orleans Bee New Orleans, Louisiana 5-19-1854 Whig "If a Democratic Member of Congress is led by his judgment and his conscience to vote for the bill, as we hope all Democrats will be led to do, and he returns to his constituents to encounter the clamor of Whigs and Abolitionists, together with disaffected men of his own party, no sensible man who understands and appreciates the character of the Executive, will believe that the President will allow such factious men to wield public patronage to overthrow any man at home who has given to the principles of the bill a cordial and conscientious support." |
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New-Orleans Bee New Orleans, Louisiana 5-31-1854 Whig The substitute adopted is the Senate (Nebraska) bill, without the Clayton amendment. |
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One Hundred Guns for Nebraska! New-Haven Daily Register New Haven, Connecticut 5-24-1854 Democratic At sunrise this morning, one hundred guns were fired from the Public Square, by order of the Democratic Town Committee, in honor of the passage of the bill |
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Charleston Mercury Charleston, South Carolina 5-29-1854 Democratic We are glad to get rid of it. |
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Parties -- will they be Sectional? Federal Union Milledgeville, Georgia 3-28-1854 Democratic We have too much confidence in the magnanimity, good sense and prudence of many Northern Democratic Statesmen, to despair of National Parties at this time. |
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Passage of the Nebraska Bill in the House. Mississippian Jackson, Mississippi 6-2-1854 Democratic it achieves the great object of removing from Congressional interference the slavery question |
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Richmond Enquirer Richmond, Virginia 5-26-1854 Democratic It has not been our opinion that the South would gain any very decisive advantage by the passage of the Nebraska bill in its present shape |
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Arkansas State Gazette and Democrat Little Rock, Arkansas 9-6-1854 Democratic The final passage of the Nebraska bill, through the Senate, was publicly announced by the roaring cannon. |
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Renewal of the Slavery Agitation. -- The Nebraska Bill. Daily Patriot Concord, New Hamphire 2-1-1854 Democratic the selfish schemes of trading politicians who seek to get up another abolition mania in the hope of thereby getting into office. |
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REPEAL OF THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE. Charleston Mercury Charleston, South Carolina 2-3-1854 Democratic distinctly and unequivocally in favor of repealing all the anti-slavery restrictions of the Missouri Compromise |
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Charleston Mercury Charleston, South Carolina 5-27-1854 Democratic As Mr. CALHOUN observed, governments were formed to protect minorities -- majorities can take care of themselves. |
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New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 2-4-1854 Whig the last desperate resort of the burglar to deceive his pursuers, is embraced. |
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Senator Douglas -- the Nebraska Bill. Arkansas State Gazette and Democrat Little Rock, Arkansas 2-3-1854 Democratic It is predicted that this report and bill will re-open the slavery agitation, both North and South. |
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Senator Douglas' Speech -- The Nebraska Question. Illinois State Register Springfield, Illinois 2-11-1854 Democratic the able and unanswerable speech of Judge Douglas upon the Nebraska Territorial bill |
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Senator Douglas-- Squatter Sovereignty Charleston Mercury Charleston, South Carolina 2-14-1854 Democratic So far therefore from these governments being empowered to exclude slavery, any action they may take upon the subject, would be a matter for discussion and decision, both by Congress and the Supreme Court of the United States. |
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Charleston Mercury Charleston, South Carolina 2-6-1854 Democratic We are able to do only imperfect justice to the speech of this distinguished Senator in defence of the territorial bill |
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Charleston Mercury Charleston, South Carolina 6-3-1854 Democratic the passage of the Nebraska Bill is the renewal of agitation of the subject of slavery, under circumstances, too, of unprecedented intensity and bitterness. |
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New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 1-6-1854 Whig An overt attempt is set on foot in Mr. Douglas's Nebraska bill to override the Missouri Compromise. |
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Slavery in the New Territories. Detroit Free Press Detroit, Michigan 1-15-1854 Democratic It is simply recognizing, to its proper limit, the great principle of the right of the people, every where, to self-government. |
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New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 1-11-1854 Whig Slavery is an Ishmael. It is malevolent and malignant. It loves aggression, for when it ceases to be aggressive it stagnates and decays. |
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New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 2-24-1854 Whig where is the man brazen enough to avow that we need any more slave- breeding districts? |
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Southern Sentiments and the Nebraska Humbug. New-Orleans Bee New Orleans, Louisiana 5-24-1854 Whig We verily believe that if the struggle on the Nebraska bill could be continued two or three months longer, the real sentiment of the Southern people would become so unmistakably known that most of their representatives would drop the demagoguical abortion as a thing not fit to be touched. |
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Speech of Judge Douglas on the Nebraska Bill. Federal Union Milledgeville, Georgia 2-14-1854 Democratic We regret to learn that several whig papers at the South, such as the National Intelligencer, the Louisville Journal, and the New Orleans Bulletin are out in opposition to the Nebraska Bill. |
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Speech of Mr. Douglas -- Renewal of the Slavery Agitation -- Its object. Daily Patriot Concord, New Hamphire 2-1-1854 Democratic We have seldom read an abler or more conclusive argument in support of any measure |
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Federal Union Milledgeville, Georgia 4-18-1854 Democratic We see a disposition in some quarters of the Democratic party to discuss the question of Squatter Sovereignty as applied to the Nebraska Bill. |
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The Clayton Amendment to the Nebraska Bill.-- New-Orleans Bee New Orleans, Louisiana 6-1-1854 Whig This important amendment, which was omitted by the House of Representatives, reads as follows: |
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New-Haven Daily Register New Haven, Connecticut 2-1-1854 Democratic The Compromise of 1850 is well understood to be a "finality" -- superceding all previous action, and designed to stop all agitation of the slavery question, in or out of Congress. |
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The Crisis in Congress -- Duty of the Majority Richmond Enquirer Richmond, Virginia 5-15-1854 Democratic The principle of the power of the majority is essential to the authority of government, and should not be sacrificed to those technical rules which are ordained for the protection of the rights of a minority. |
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New-Haven Daily Register New Haven, Connecticut 2-21-1854 Democratic it must be apparent to every one who looks upon the Congressional proceedings, that the whig organization, as a National party is ended |
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New-Haven Daily Register New Haven, Connecticut 1-9-1854 Democratic That not only the administration, but the Democracy of the whole country will show their determination to stand by these measures, and to practically apply them whenever in the organization of territorial and State governments, or otherwise, the same principles shall arise, we feel the fullest confidence. |
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Detroit Free Press Detroit, Michigan 2-18-1854 Democratic The battle is between popular constitutional rights on the one hand, and the encroachments of the central power on the other. |
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Richmond Enquirer Richmond, Virginia 2-16-1854 Democratic On our side we have the whole power of the Federal government and the moral support of a sound public sentiment |
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Richmond Enquirer Richmond, Virginia 3-2-1854 Democratic Northern journals betray a gross misrepresentation of the temper of the public mind of the South |
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The Importance of the Early Passage of the Nebraska Bill. Mississippian Jackson, Mississippi 4-21-1854 Democratic The condition on which the Democracy of the slave-holding States co-operate with their brethren of the North, is that of non-interference with the rights of slave-holding States, and opposition to Congressional legislation, which discriminates in any form against the property of one section of the Union |
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The Iniquity to be Consummated. Morning Herald Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 5-20-1854 Whig It is now reduced to a certainty that the Nebraskabill, which is repudiated by every honest man, and whose author's name is execrated from Canadato Cuba, will pass Congress. |
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Illinois State Register Springfield, Illinois 3-13-1854 Democratic Its daily conglomerate, hashed up from Greely's mint of festering misrepresentation, calumny, and impotent malice, finds no response with the people of Illinois. |
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THE LATEST NEWS. RECEIVED BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH FROM WASHINGTON. New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 1-16-1854 Whig Douglas purposes now to bring up the Nebraska bill forthwith, and to "cram it down," |
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THE LATEST NEWS. RECEIVED BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH. FROM WASHINGTON. New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 1-24-1854 Whig DOUGLAS'S new bill has taken the best friends of the Administration by surprise. |
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New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 1-18-1854 Whig Some of the Southern members are startled at the discovery that Douglas's Nebraska bill is a violation of the Compromise of 1850. |
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The Missouri Compromise -- How the Question Stands. Detroit Free Press Detroit, Michigan 2-2-1854 Democratic We deny to Congress the power to either establish slavery or to prohibit it, in a Territory or a State. |
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New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 2-3-1854 Whig The Nebraska bill is a Presidential scheme. |
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The Nebraska and Kansas Bill.-- New-Orleans Bee New Orleans, Louisiana 5-16-1854 Whig Our Congressional news of to-day, although it occupies but little space owing to the rule of condensation that invariably prevails in this office, will be found extremely interesting and important. |
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Daily Pittsburgh Gazette Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 5-23-1854 Whig The infamous act has been forced upon the country by the power of an oligarchy |
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Hartford Daily Courant Hartford, Connecticut 5-24-1854 Whig The South may depend upon it that the confidence in their honor has been woefully shaken by this repeal of a solemn compact. |
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Federal Union Milledgeville, Georgia 5-30-1854 Democratic the South has learned that she has many friends at the North upon whom she may rely for justice in the hour of need. |
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New-Haven Daily Register New Haven, Connecticut 2-3-1854 Democratic There never was a more needless excitement than that which the whig press is trying to raise on this subject. |
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Illinois State Register Springfield, Illinois 5-19-1854 Democratic The opponents of the Nebraska bill failed in their disorganizing efforts to defeat this measure by legislative trickery |
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Semi-weekly Raleigh Register Raleigh, North Carolina 2-22-1854 Whig let the principle of non- intervention be presented in a distinct resolution, which shall fix the doctrine upon our statute book |
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Daily Patriot Concord, New Hamphire 5-31-1854 Democratic it will tend to remove from the halls of Congress the slavery controversy, and to transfer it to the people |
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New-Orleans Bee New Orleans, Louisiana 5-25-1854 Whig According to a telegraphic dispatch from Washington, which appeared in yesterday's Evening Picayune, the Nebraska bill, divested of the Clayton amendment, passed the House of Representatives, late on Tuesday evening, by a vote of 113 yeas to 100 nays. |
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The Nebraska Bill. Abolitionism. Union Washington, D. C. 1-15-1854 Democratic his proposition is regarded by abolitionists as a death-blow totheir hope of making the slavery question available forfuture political excitement. |
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Morning Herald Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 5-22-1854 Whig The time approaches for the final vote on the Nebraska bill in the House of Representatives. |
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Richmond Enquirer Richmond, Virginia 1-25-1854 Democratic The union of the Democracy on this proposition will dissipate forever the charges of free soil sympathies so recklessly and pertinaciously urged against the administration by our Whig opponents |
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Semi-weekly Raleigh Register Raleigh, North Carolina 2-1-1854 Whig we confess that we somewhat doubt the utility of disturbing the Missouri Compromise |
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New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 5-12-1854 Whig he contest has begun on that infamous measure. |
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The Non-Intervention Principle. Illinois State Register Springfield, Illinois 1-31-1854 Democratic Now is the time to give practical effect to the leading principles which triumphed in the election of Pierce. |
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The Object of the Compromise of 1850. Detroit Free Press Detroit, Michigan 2-6-1854 Democratic take the whole question out of the hands of Congress, and give it into the charge of the people interested in it |
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The Organization of New Territories. Detroit Free Press Detroit, Michigan 1-10-1854 Democratic all questions pertaining to slavery in the Territories, and in the new States to be formed therefrom, are to be left to the decision of the people residing therein |
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Morning Herald Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 5-22-1854 Whig We give below the names of the eleven traitors to Pennsylvania and the North, who voted to take up the Nebraska bill, with a view to its immediate passage. |
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Hartford Daily Courant Hartford, Connecticut 6-6-1854 Whig The transitionfrom a compliance with this demand to the universal toleration of slavery at the North, is but a step and an easy one. |
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Detroit Free Press Detroit, Michigan 2-9-1854 Democratic When abolitionism shall be finally crushed out of Congress, no other question can soon arise whose tendency will be to disturb the relations of cordiality which naturally subsist between the two great divisions of the country. |
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New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 1-26-1854 Whig Sober minded men, who have leaned to the side of the South in the late contests, on the ground that the Abolitionists were the aggressors, will turn and resist this movement as a gross outrage and aggression on the part of the South. |
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Hartford Daily Courant Hartford, Connecticut 5-20-1854 Whig It is a solemn question for the freemen of the Free States to ask themselves, how far they intend to follow the beck of the slave power and to fulfil their plans for supremacy. |
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The South and the New York Factions. Charleston Mercury Charleston, South Carolina 1-26-1854 Democratic It is perhaps, well for the South that parties at the North stand thus committed |
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Detroit Free Press Detroit, Michigan 1-12-1854 Democratic it takes the right ground essentially, and we have no doubt that the nation will sustain it. |
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Detroit Free Press Detroit, Michigan 1-13-1854 Democratic The bill for the organization of Nebraska, like the Compromise Measures, is common ground upon which all sections can meet. |
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Thos. H. Benton and the Extension of Slavery.-- New-Orleans Bee New Orleans, Louisiana 5-29-1854 Whig To those who, through ignorance or obstinacy, still insist that the passage of the Nebraska bill will extend slavery, we commend the following remarks from the late speech of Col. Benton in Congress: |
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New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 2-6-1854 Whig contempt for the juggling doughfaces who are mediating this monstrous treachery |
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New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 2-8-1854 Whig We recommend their perusal to the small fry who are just now making a parade of their great astuteness in the reproduction of Mr. Calhouns's doctrine of the unconstitutionality of excluding Slavery from the territories; a doctrine which his ingenious sophistry alone could shield from contempt. |
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Charleston Mercury Charleston, South Carolina 2-8-1854 Democratic But the position of the Abolitionists on this question is not only treacherous, but it makes also the legislation of the country absurdly inconsistent. |
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Charleston Mercury Charleston, South Carolina 3-23-1854 Democratic Whether time and consultation, and the various influences that work on the minds of Members of Congress, will increase the number of supporters of the bill, remains to be seen. |
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New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 2-20-1854 Whig The Satanic Press audaciously asserts that the public opinion of this City is in favor of Douglas's Nebraska bill |
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WHIG OPPOSITION TO THE NEBRASKA BILL. Richmond Enquirer Richmond, Virginia 2-7-1854 Democratic we apprehend before the struggle is over, the majority of the active and aspiring Whigs of the South will be found in opposition to the repeal of the Missouri restriction. |
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Cleveland Plain Dealer Cleveland, Ohio 6-11-1856 Democratic Brooks declares that, as the constitution provides that no member of either House of Congress shall be held responsible for words spoken in debate, that it would have been to have caned Sumner anywhere else than the place designated by the Constitution. |
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Cleveland Plain Dealer Cleveland, Ohio 5-29-1856 Democratic Senator Sumner has floored himself much worse than Brooks did by the following foolish and false attempt to drag Senator Douglas into personal difficulty with Brooks. |
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Charleston Mercury Charleston, South Carolina 5-29-1856 Democratic Was the like of this ever before published in a newspaper in South Carolina? |
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A NORTHERN FREE REPUBLIC: STAND BY THE UNION. Boston Post Boston, Massachusetts 6-3-1856 Democratic Madness rules the hour, in nullification-ridden Massachusetts. |
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Ohio State Journal Columbus, Ohio 5-30-1856 Republican The South boasts all the Chivalry: |
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An Atrocious Speech and a Disgraceful Assault. Detroit Free Press Detroit, Michigan 5-23-1856 Democratic It was an atrocious speech. But its atrocity did not warrant the personal assault upon him by a South Carolina member of the House of Representatives. |
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Another Richmond in the Field. Cleveland Plain Dealer Cleveland, Ohio 5-26-1856 Democratic Senator Sumner is the man for Fusion Candidate for President. |
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Ohio State Journal Columbus, Ohio 5-28-1856 Republican The Statesman has at last spoken. |
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Assault in the United States Senate Chamber. Illinois State Register Springfield, Illinois 5-26-1856 Democratic Sumner's speech, surpassed in blackguardism anything ever delivered in the senate. |
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Assault in the United States Senate Chamber. Illinois State Register Springfield, Illinois 5-26-1856 Democratic Sumner's speech, surpassed in blackguardism anything ever delivered in the senate. |
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Daily Patriot Concord, New Hamphire 5-28-1856 Democratic Sumner's speech was of such a character as to provoke the result which has followed |
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Boston Daily Bee Boston, Massachusetts 5-23-1856 American An outrage so gross and villianous was neverbefore committed within the walls of the Capitol. |
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Mobile Daily Register Mobile, Alabama 6-6-1856 Democratic Greeley and his crowd are sharply ridiculous in their remarks, and their attempt to make political capital out of it, is so palpable, as to destroy, in a great measure, the effect of the venom they spit forth. |
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Carolina Spartan Spartanburg, South Carolina 5-29-1856 Democratic Few in South Carolina will withhold applause from Col. Brooks for his castigation of a man who to a foul tongue adds the crime of perjury. |
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CAPT. BROOKS' CASTIGATION OF SENATOR SUMNER. Edgefield Advertiser Edgefield, South Carolina 5-28-1856 Democratic we have borne insult long enough, and now let the conflict come if it must. |
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Ohio State Journal Columbus, Ohio 5-23-1856 Republican Read the telegraphic despatches from Washington. |
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Yorkville Enquirer Yorkville, South Carolina 5-29-1856 Democratic If ever a high-minded man can be justified in promptly resenting insult and injury, surely Col. Brooks will receive from the people of his own State, at least, the mead of a most cordial approval. |
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Congress and the Sumner Assault. Sun Baltimore, Maryland 5-28-1856 American Let the root of the evil be aimed at, by a prompt and determined "call to order" immediately on the first digression from the proper parliamentary discourse, and we may then escape any more such scenes as disgrace the body and tend to provoke violence. |
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Illinios State Journal Springfield, Illinois 6-2-1856 Republican All, without regard to political affinities execrate and denounce the assault upon Senator Sumner by Mr. Brooks of South Carolina, as cowardly and unwarrantable. |
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Albany Evening Journal Albany, New York 5-24-1856 Republican Mr. Sumner was writing unsuspectingly and busily at his desk when attacked by Brooks. |
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Illinios State Journal Springfield, Illinois 6-16-1856 Republican Senator Butler concluded his remarks, in reply to Mr. Sumner'sspeech, by claiming he had convicted Sumner of error, misrepresentation and calumny. |
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Congressman Brooks' Assault on Senator Sumner. Vermont Patriot & State Gazette Montpelier, Vermont 5-30-1856 Democratic The remarks made by Mr. Sumner, which provoked this assault, were malignant and insulting beyond anything ever uttered in coolness upon the floor of the Senate. |
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Exciting Debate in the Senate -- Senator Sumner Whipped! Weekly North Carolina Standard Raleigh, North Carolina 5-28-1856 Democratic It was a speech full of abuse of his brother Senators -- full of the vilest and most dangerous appeals against the domestic institutions of the South, and calculated only to increase the strife between the two sections and lead to disunion and civil war. |
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Locomotive Indianapolis, Indiana 5-23-1856 Democratic Freedom of speech should be guarantied to all public men in debate on public questions |
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From the St. Louis Evening News: A Difference of Opinions Illinios State Journal Springfield, Illinois 6-7-1856 Republican On the whole the Mercury concludes that the negro demonstration is a "spectacle as disgusting as it is novel -- offensive to every sentiment of South Carolina society, and calculated to bring ridicule and disgrace upon the whole movement." We think so, too. |
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Portland Advertiser Portland, Maine 6-6-1856 Republican The manner in which the deed has been defended in Congress and its perpetrator so shamefully applauded by the Southern press, has strengthened and prolonged the indignant response of our people. |
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Daily Pittsburgh Gazette Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 6-11-1856 Republican the club is to be the substitute for debate |
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LIBERTY OF SPEECH, OF THE PRESS, AND FREEDOM OF RELIGION. Richmond Enquirer Richmond, Virginia 6-3-1856 Democratic A community of Abolitionists could only be governed by a penitentiary system. They are as unfit for liberty as maniacs, criminals, or wild beasts. |
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Ohio State Journal Columbus, Ohio 6-4-1856 Republican The indignation meeting held at Brooklyn was an ovation: The Mayor presided. |
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Sun Baltimore, Maryland 5-15-1856 American These two gentlemen have all at once become prominent characters and objects of public sympathy in their respective sections of country. |
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Republican Banner Nashville, Tennessee 5-27-1856 American His assault upon Mr. S., a member of the Senate, upon the floor of the Senate, was a great outrage upon that body, and cannot be justified or excused. |
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Sun Baltimore, Maryland 6-9-1856 American Senator Wilson, in a speech at Worcester said, that when he and others were conveying Mr. Sumner to his lodgings, Mr. S. remarked: "I shall give it to them again if God spares my life. |
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Republican Banner Nashville, Tennessee 6-6-1856 American We copy the following from the Charleston Mercury: |
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Mr. Brooks's Letter to the Senate Charleston Mercury Charleston, South Carolina 6-6-1856 Democratic We copy below the letter of Mr. BROOKS, addressed to the President of the Senate |
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Illinios State Journal Springfield, Illinios 6-21-1856 Republican [pointing finger] P.S.Brooks is talked of as the next Democratic candidate for Governor of South Carolina. And on the same principle, we presume, that Herbert will be the next Democratic candidate for Governor of California. |
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Louisville Journal Louisville, Kentucky 5-28-1856 American It is monstrous that a member of the House of Representatives should beat a Senator upon the floor of the Senate for a speech made in the Senate |
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Louisville Journal Louisville, Kentucky 6-5-1856 American The course of a portion of the Southern press is no less reprehensible in applauding the brutal and deadly assault of Brooks upon the person of a United States Senator upon the floor of the Senate chamber. |
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Boston Atlas Boston, Massachusetts 5-23-1856 Republican the mouths of the representatives of the North are to be closed by the use of bowie-knives, bludgeons, and revolvers. |
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Boston Atlas Boston, Massachusetts 5-24-1856 Republican The Boston Courier did not see fit to join yesterday morning in the unqualified rebuke which the assault upon Mr. Sumner elicited from almost every Boston newspaper. |
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Boston Atlas Boston, Massachusetts 6-3-1856 Republican the Democratic party has kindled its flames; that if fanaticism has taken a new lease of life, that life was breathed into it by Pierce and Douglas and their fellow conspirators |
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Boston Post Boston, Massachusetts 5-24-1856 Democratic The free soil politicians are prompt in their endeavors to make party capital out of this affair. |
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Portland Advertiser Portland, Maine 6-4-1856 Republican The fault was not with our citizens, but with those who directly and indirectly lent their countenance to the ruffianly conduct of Brooks. |
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Semi-weekly Raleigh Register Raleigh, North Carolina 6-6-1856 American in censuring the attack, let not the cause be forgotten |
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Daily Herald Wilmington, North Carolina 5-26-1856 American he has yet given a good handle for the Northern people to seize, in denunciation of his course, and deprived the South of the opportunity of justification |
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Albany Evening Journal Albany, New York 5-31-1856 Republican As there have been political crimes in all ages, so there have been in all ages Doughfaces to defend them. |
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Albany Evening Journal Albany, New York 6-5-1856 Republican they take upon themselves the unnecessary odium of being the opponents of Freedom of Debate. |
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New York Times New York, New York 5-23-1856 Republican The most fastidious reader will search in vain for anything which could give the slightest color of just provocation for the brutal outrage of Brooks. |
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New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 5-23-1856 Republican No meaner exhibition of Southern cowardice -- generally miscalled Southern chivalry -- was ever witnessed. |
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New-York Daily Tribune New York, New York 5-24-1856 Republican a more vivid, if not a wholly original perception, of the degradation in which the Free States have consented for years to exist. |
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Ohio State Journal Columbus, Ohio 5-23-1856 Republican [Pointing Finger] The telegraphic despatches to-day will be read with interest. |
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Ohio State Journal Columbus, Ohio 5-24-1856 Republican [Pointing Finger] The reader will not fail to look at the Telegraphic head for the latest news from Washington. |
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Ohio State Journal Columbus, Ohio 5-26-1856 Republican [Pointing Finger] Our exchanges are teeming with accounts of the state of affairs at Washington and in Kansas, and commentaries thereon. |
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Ohio State Journal Columbus, Ohio 5-27-1856 Republican [Pointing Finger] The Louisville Journal speaks of the disgraceful outrage in the Senate chamber in a spirit of just condemnation, although it thinks Mr. Sumner ought to be punished "for his incendiary harangues." |
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Ohio State Journal Columbus, Ohio 6-2-1856 Republican [Pointing Finger] If one thing more than another demonstrates the character of the man and the nature of the attack on Senator Sumner by Brooks, it is this -- that he could steal up unsuspectingly and attack his victim, whom he knew to be unarmed, for words spoken in debate, no way applying to him; but resorted to a challenge with Wilson, whom he knew would not accept, for words the most opprobrious directly applied to himself -- and why? |
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Ohio State Journal Columbus, Ohio 6-2-1856 Republican The committee on Federal Relations in the Connecticut Legislature, recently reported the following resolutions for the consideration of the two Houses of the General Assembly, viz.: |
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Ohio State Journal Columbus, Ohio 6-13-1856 Republican [Pointing Finger] Senator Butler has been giving the Senate a specimen of his drivel, in reply to Mr. Sumner's speech. |
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Charleston Mercury Charleston, South Carolina 5-28-1856 Democratic SUMNER was well and elegantly whipped, and he richly deserved it. |
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Republican Banner Nashville, Tennessee 6-4-1856 American They speak of Sumner as a martyr to the Freesoil sentiment of the North. |
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Illinios State Journal Springfield, Illinios 6-3-1856 Republican Brooks declares upon his honor as a gentleman that he had no coajutor in his achievement in the Senate the other day. |
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Illinios State Journal Springfield, Illinois 6-13-1856 Republican Mr. Sumner has the mark of Cain on his brow but it don't follow that he was Abel to defend himself. |
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Richmond Daily Whig Richmond, Virginia 5-31-1856 American the Abolition wretch, with his Abolition physicians as accomplices in the trick, is playing possum. |
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Public Approval of Mr. Brooks. South Carolinian Columbia, South Carolina 5-27-1856 Democratic Meetings of approval and sanction will be held, not only in Mr. Brooks' district, but throughout the State at large, and a general and hearty response of approval will re-echo the words, "Welldone," from Washington to the Rio Grande. |
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Cincinnati Daily Enquirer Cincinnati, Ohio 5-23-1856 Democratic Superficial and malevolent writers are attemptingto magnify Sumner into a martyr forfreedom and a victim of slavery. |
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Cincinnati Daily Enquirer Cincinnati, Ohio 5-27-1856 Democratic gentlemen everywhere will admit that Sumner's general tone was neither parliamentary nor gentlemanly |
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Daily Pittsburgh Gazette Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 5-27-1856 Republican The seat of the National government should be where freedom of speech can safely be tolerated |
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RESIGNATION OF BROOKS AND KEITT. Carolina Spartan Spartanburg, South Carolina 7-24-1856 Democratic These gallant gentlemen have done nothing justifying the action of the House, and their constituents will send them back strengthened to battle with the hosts of Black Republicanism |
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Buffalo Morning Express and Daily Democracy Buffalo, New York 5-24-1856 Republican The truth is, that slavery, with its southern chivalry and northern doughfaceism, found more than a match in the oratorical powers of Sumner. They had not the ability to cope with him in debate. |
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Illinios State Journal Springfield, Illinois 5-23-1856 Republican Can the north no longer raise her voice in the halls of Legislation, without being outraged and insulted? |
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Illinios State Journal Springfield, Illinois 6-4-1856 Republican Every one here thought when the stand takenby Senator Wilson was made known that a rencontrewould be the immediate consequence |
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Portland Advertiser Portland, Maine 6-3-1856 Republican Slavery shows its paternity of the deed by its thorough ratification. |
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Illinios State Journal Springfield, Illinois 6-5-1856 Republican The only men in South Carolina who gave their efforts to the country in the Revolutionary war, were poor men, and poor men in South Carolina at this time are denied the right of sufferage, and are incapable of holding office. |
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Louisville Journal Louisville, Kentucky 5-24-1856 American A pitched battle has long been raging between the champions of those two States, and generally the harshest and most offensive language has come from the South Carolinians |
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Patriot and Mountaineer Greenville, South Carolina 5-29-1856 Democratic he was abusive of Judge BUTLER and Judge DOUGLAS, and denounced all slaveholders as criminals! |
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Cleveland Plain Dealer Cleveland, Ohio 6-10-1856 Democratic We see that Senator Sumner is not only in his seat but is engaged in debate with Senator Douglas and others. |
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Cleveland Plain Dealer Cleveland, Ohio 6-17-1856 Democratic We are unprepared to say that a man should be cudgeled over the head for the gross crime of plagiarism, but we believe it is a pretty good rule in the old-fashioned schools to give a youth a good licking for that offence. |
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Boston Post Boston, Massachusetts 5-29-1856 Democratic personal violence is of akin to that higher-lawism Which has been so long urged by fanaticism. |
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Sun Baltimore, Maryland 5-24-1856 American It is seldom, perhaps, that a more general feeling of disapprobation has been felt and expressed in regard to a circumstance of the kind, than is called forth on all hands by the outrage and descration commited by the Hon. Mr. Brooks, of S. C., in his recent assault upon Senator Sumner, in the Senate Chamber, on Thursday last. |
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The Assault on Hon. W. T. Butler. State Gazette Austin, Texas 6-14-1856 Democratic The most serious offence committed in the American Senate, and one which must be promptly rebuked, is the slanderous and dastardly attack upon the South and one of her proudest patriots, by Sumner, the abolitionist leader in the Senate. |
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Boston Atlas Boston, Massachusetts 5-24-1856 Republican never before has the sanctity of the Senate Chamber been violated |
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The Assault on Senator Sumner a Pre - Meditated Affair. Illinios State Journal Springfield, Illinois 5-27-1856 Republican It seems that the assault upon Senator Sumner, among the Nebraska men, was a pre-meditated affair, and Senator Douglas was doubtless its principal instigator. |
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Daily Pittsburgh Gazette Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 5-24-1856 Republican If Southern men will resort to the fist to overawe and intimidate Northern men, blow must be given back for blow. Forbearance and kindly deportment are lost upon these Southern ruffians. |
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Portland Advertiser Portland, Maine 5-24-1856 Republican We hope, for the credit of humanity, that every man in the Free States, without regard to party, will feel this outrage as a personal indignity, no less than an insult to the Free States. |
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Boston Courier Boston, Massachusetts 5-23-1856 Whig The member from South Carolina transgressed every rule of honor which should animate or restrain one gentleman in his connections with another, in his ruffian assault upon Mr. Sumner. There is no chivalry in a brute. There is no manliness in a scoundrel. |
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The Brooks and Sumner difficulty. Federal Union Milledgeville, Georgia 6-3-1856 Democratic We believe there are some kinds of slander and abuse, for the perpetration of which, no office or station should protect a man from deserved punishment. |
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Laurensville Herald Laurensville, South Carolina 6-6-1859 Democratic The first has been struck, which will be felt keener and longer than all the arguments and warnings ever used in Congress by Southern members |
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Richmond Daily Whig Richmond, Virginia 6-7-1859 American A member of Congress may say what he pleases in his place; but if he publishes his speech, he becomes amenable to the law of libel or the cudgel |
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Carolina Spartan Spartanburg, South Carolina 6-5-1856 Democratic Intense excitement continues at the North, and the negro worshippers are forging capital from the original occurrence. |
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Ohio State Journal Columbus, Ohio 6-2-1856 Republican The meeting on Friday evening, at the Tabernacle, to give expression to the feelings of the commercial capital of the Nation on the outrage at Washington, is among the occurrences of the day to be noted. |
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The Meeting To-Morrow Evening. Albany Evening Journal Albany, New York 6-5-1856 Republican The assault upon Senator Sumner was a National outrage. |
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Portland Advertiser Portland, Maine 5-23-1856 Republican How long will the people of the Free States tamely submit to such outrages? |
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Daily Pittsburgh Gazette Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 5-26-1856 Republican when even Southern papers denounce the attack as atrocious, the Pittsburgh Post, alone among all the papers of the free States, hastes to the defence of Mr. Brooks and justifies his brutal and unmanly assault upon Mr. Sumner. |
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Charleston Mercury Charleston, South Carolina 6-9-1856 Democratic Precedent is the mask which tyranny wears when it strikes its deadliest blows. |
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The Progress of the Revolution. Richmond Daily Whig Richmond, Virginia 6-4-1859 American To speak of feeling an insult as a wound would be to them an unintelligible jargon. |
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The Provocation to the Assault. Portland Advertiser Portland, Maine 5-29-1856 Republican If you would see the sure and unmistakable evidences of MEAN souls, look at the semi-apologies made in some of the Northern administration papers |
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Charleston Mercury Charleston, South Carolina 5-30-1856 Democratic The South certainly has become generally convinced that it is by hard blows, and not by loud blustering and insulting denunciation, that the sectional quarrel is to be settled. |
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Albany Evening Journal Albany, New York 5-23-1856 Republican For the first time has the extreme discipline of the Plantation been introduced into the Senate of the United States. |
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Sun Baltimore, Maryland 6-3-1856 American Mr. Brooks, of S. C., has been burned in effigy at Cambridge, Mass.. |
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Boston Courier Boston, Massachusetts 5-26-1856 Whig The object of the Atlas is to obtain personal and political capital from the occurrence at Washington |
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Ohio State Journal Columbus, Ohio 6-6-1856 Republican Our leading papers, and letter-writers from Washington, are expressing great surprise and indignation at the action of the Senate on the breach of privilege committed on that body by the ruffianly assault on Sumner. |
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Laurensville Herald Laurensville, South Carolina 5-30-1859 Democratic we can only give our most hearty indorsement of the conduct of Mr. Brooks |
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Vermont Patriot & State Gazette Montpelier, Vermont 6-13-1856 Democratic no portion of our people seem to be so much pleased with the Sumner row and the Kansas troubles as our fusion abolitionists |
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Violence in the Senate Chamber. Sun Baltimore, Maryland 5-23-1856 American Scarcely a session of Congress passes in which the public ear is not abused with violence of some sort in one or other of the houses of Congress, or among the members elsewhere. |
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Ohio State Journal Columbus, Ohio 5-31-1856 Republican The passage on the floor of the Senate, in which Mr. Butler bore himself so courteously toward Mr. Wilson, and in which Mr. Toombs approved of mob law in regulating debate, has been sketched in our telegraphic dispatches. |
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Albany Evening Journal Albany, New York 5-24-1856 Republican The record of the Revolutionary Struggle shows that South Carolina's Slavery, weakened South Carolina |
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Illinios State Journal Springfield, Illinois 5-26-1856 Republican This outrage is of a piece with those in Kansas, with the additional merit of being bolder and having a more distinguished person for its victim. |
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Cleveland Plain Dealer Cleveland, Ohio 5-28-1856 Democratic Why don't the Democrats denounce the ruffian Brooks? |
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